[Buildbot-devel] Source step's clobbering part 2

[Marcus Lindblom]

Marcus Lindblom wrote:

> Quentin (aka 'even') has added a switch for this, keeping the default 
> behaviour. See http://github.com/even/buildbot/tree/bug462
> 
> I think it looks fairly good (apart from Quentin's question about 
> 'addFactoryArguments', which someone should look at) and it shouldn't 
> break tests and solves the immediate issue.
> 
> We could then work on #412 separately, making inrepo-branch switches 
> both robust and fast.

Update: We have a patch for #412 that builds on #462. (Tries purge, and 
falls back to clobber if purge fails or isn't activated),

It looks pretty good.

The addfactoryarguments issue remains though.

/Marcs